The Eclectic Mind of an Author

Artfully: Day 6

December 6, 2014

Today I was hoping to have painting with a different media to show you, but it was bitingly cold and not many wanted to have their faces painted. I solaced myself with the camera, and so you have a montage of photos to look at, instead. And now I’m going to try and finish warming myself back up, after standing out in it for a couple of hours. Tomorrow I go back and do it again! Only I’ll take a sketchbook along, so I can at least paint on paper if not skin.

Streets full of shoppers and good cheerBells and hooves, and warm gusts of breathThe Claus’s out for a strollFascinating shops full of curiosThe Jingle of Harness BellsWarm Lights in Windows

Goodreads

Don't come to Proof of our Resolve expecting a novel. It reads like a military memoir, and given Hernandez' background, I expect that in some ways it is. This is a fiction book, and it hasn't got a plot. Well, not really. It is a linear ...

Look, this book didn't have the words for bug, insect, farm, or goat. I was expecting a little more from it. Like more words! If you're only working on the basics, it's ok. Anything more advanced, forget this.

A pair of impossibly good short stories. Short stories, unlike a novel, are like priming a pump. There’s a story arc there, and it takes place within the pages of the book, but there is so much more that leaves your mind racing with que...

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I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy…censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, “This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,” the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything — you can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.~Robert A Heinlein